n. o. euphorbuce;e. 1139 



and attenuant, and is prescribed in decoction in the quantity 

 of four ounces or more twice daity. (Ainslie.^ The juice of the 

 leaves is used medicinally in the Konkan. It is made into a 

 pill with camphor and cubebs, which is allowed to dissolve 

 in the mouth as a remedy for bleeding from the gums, it is also 

 reduced to a thin extract along with the juice of other 

 alterative plants and made into a pill with aromatics. This 

 pill is given twice a day, rubbed down in milk as an alter- 

 ative in ' heat of the blood'. (Dymock.) 



1130. P. Emblica, Linn., h.f.b.i., v. 289 ; Roxb. 

 684. 



Sans. : — Dhatriphala, Amritaphala, Amalakam, Shri-phalam, 

 Sainam. 



Vern. i—Aonla, (H.) ; Ambliy (Arab.); Amelah (Pers.) ; 

 Ambul, ambli (Pb.) ; Amla, amlaki (B. and Ass.); Ambari (GaroJ ; 

 Neli, nellekai (Tam.); Shabju, ziphiyusi (Burm.) ; Anvala (Mar.). 



Hahitat : — Throughout Tropical India, wild or planted, from 

 the base of the Himalaya, from Jummoo eastwards, and south- 

 wards to Ceylon. 



A moderate-sized, deciduous, pretty and ornamental tree. 

 Bark somewhat less than fin., thick, light grey, exfoliating in 

 irregular patches; inner substance red. Wood red, hard, close- 

 grained, warps and splits in seasoning ; no heartwood. Branch- 

 lets mostly deciduous, finely pubescent or glabrous. Foliage 

 feathery, light green. Leaves equal and distichous, symmetri- 

 cally close ; set like the leaflets of a pinnate leaf, glabrous, pube- 

 rulous beneath, i-Jin. long, sub-sessile, linear-oblong, acute or 

 mucronate. Stipules minute, ovate, finely acute. Flowers apetal- 

 ous, monoecious, greenish-yellow, in axillary clusters. Male 

 flowers : -Numerous and shortly pedicillate ; stamens 3, joined 

 in a short column. Disk, of distinct glands, alternating with 

 the calyx-segments, rarely 0. Female-flowers few, snb-sessile. 

 Sepals as in male. Disk cupular, lacerate. Ovary 3-celled, with 

 2 ovules in each cell ; styles 3, connate at the base, twice bifid, 



